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WorksSharpshooter
Set in the dying Montana town of Sanctuary, Sharpshooter pits the local lawman, Redfawn Kravitz, against the recent killer of U.S. Senate candidate Jeb Holloway, a powerful man with lots of enemies. The weapon that killed Holloway is a Sharps buffalo rifle. The lethal slug seems to have come through time, as if the murderer stepped out of the past, then melted back to the time just after the Battle of Little Bighorn, when the Holloways began grabbing up land at bargain prices. As the investigation gains ground, both suspects and witnesses begin dropping like flies. Sharpshooter is modern in the sense of being present day, but Western in terms of the ruggedness and traditional views of its characters. It isn't likely that you'll guess whodunnit until the last chapter. Three romantic subplots add welcome relief from this otherwise hard land and its people. As beautiflly written as the story is gripping, this one may just be literature. Triple Jeopardy
Less brief description goes here Little Gods
Set in 1963 at an elite New England prep school, Little Gods channels Mystic River into Dead Poet’s Society. The murder inciting narrator Travis Mather’s hunt for this best friend’s killer is witnessed by only one terrified student, and quickly eclipsed by JFK’s death just weeks later. Sight Unseen
Spike Halleck. Once Hollywood’s top sound-effects man. Then an accident left him blind. When his niece is kidnapped, he has only his trained ears and the patience of a woman cop to work with. After the ransom attempt is bungled, they have only hours to find her before she dies. The Last Prisoner
Brilliant immunologist Larry Farnes is a political prisoner. His crime was to blow the whistle on his own covert experiments for the Defense Department: the creation of an invincible bioweapon. When the United States is secretly attacked by bioweapons, prisoner Farnes is the country’s only hope. |
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